3 Questions: UFC Fight Night 19

More than a year after losing a decision to Kenny
Florian, Huerta has avoided press attention; instead of signing
a new UFC deal, he opted to concentrate on an acting career. Swell
if he can make a go of it -- though most can’t -- but where’s his
head? Fighting requires a certain clinical mentality that’s absent
from the casting call/manicured world of performing. You couldn’t
ask for two more disparate lifestyles. Gray
Maynard does not care about his headshot.

Against Gleison
Tibau in a controversial spring ’09 bout -- one in which he
took a contested decision -- Guillard struggled mightily to avoid
being placed on his back, but expended a lot of energy doing it.
Diaz is a few inches taller and has a spider-like relationship to
anyone he’s trying to plant on the ground: draw them in, contain,
and smother. If Guillard can stay off of his back, Diaz may soon
join his brother in Strikeforce.

Larson is 32-years-old. He has only two losses in 28 fights. Nobody
has made it out of the first round against him in over two
years.

So where’s the attention? Larson’s muscular attack makes him one of
the more formidable athletes in the welterweight division. After
contending for the WEC title in 2007 -- a loss to Carlos
Condit -- he hasn’t yet been granted an opportunity to show
whether or not he belongs in the same discussion as Mike Swick,
Martin
Kampmann or the rest for Georges
St. Pierre’s title. Fighting the nameless Mike Pierce
isn’t going to do much to push him in that direction. For a
division as barren as this one -- GSP has beaten virtually everyone
of note -- Larson’s UFC run has been on a treadmill.